59 – What is a Failure Mechanism with Fred Schenkelberg

What is a Failure Mechanism with Fred Schenkelberg

This episode is centered upon the failure mechanism that reliability engineers have to deal with in everyday work. Before we understand what a failure mechanism is, it is very important to know what is called a failure. A failure is a technically relative term that is used when the results are below the expectations. Now different people have different definitions of failure based on their own performance scales. The failure depends on the criteria of performance that you have set for a particular machine and when the machine falls short of generating that specific output, you call it a failure.
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SOR 224 How Does a Failure Above the Specs Matter?

How Does a Failure Above the Specs Matter?

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Kirk and Fred discussing the common question in empirical limit testing (a.k.a HALT) that many design engineers have. How strength margins above specifications are important for long term reliability.
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55 – Reliability from a CMMS Perspective with John Reeve

Reliability from a CMMS Perspective with John Reeve

This episode is about the book, Reliability from a CMMS Perspective by John Reeve that will be coming out this fall. Often times, companies just implement a CMMS into their reliability programs and the software doesn’t live up their expectations. So, what exactly goes wrong with such kind of projects? How do they get it right? The simple answer may be is that they expect too much and too fast. The results from any SAAS oriented system take time and they require patience. Then there needs to be some sort of consultation between the reliability engineers and the management of the company if they are ever going to implement a CMMS correctly.
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SOR 176 Determine Which Failures Are Relevant

Determine Which Failures Are Relevant

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Kirk and Fred discussing how to determine when HALT failures are relevant or not relevant to what actually may fail in the field.
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23 – Failure Data and the CMMS with John Reeve

Failure data and the CMMS with John Reeve

In today’s episode, the guest is John Reeve and the agenda of discussion is failure data and CMMS. As everyone knows that to maintain and solve issues with the equipment you need to get all the basic data or information available. Computerized maintenance management system helps greatly in this task but first of all, you have to know exactly what kind of data are you looking for and what it means. Now failure data can be anything related to your asset that is the foundation data or then transactional data comes which includes the processing data related to the asset such as the actual cost. Now, next thing to understand is the failure mode which consists of the failed component, component problem and cause code. Once you have this failure data, it becomes very easy to run the basic failure analysis which is necessary at certain levels.
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SOR 068 What definition of failure is used to measure Reliability?

What definition of failure is used to measure Reliability?

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Join Carl and Fred as they discuss “what is a failure?” The discussion centers around the context of measuring reliability. Reliability experts do not always agree on the definition of “failure.”
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